Learning Cartography; or, a Gallery of Awesome Maps
Exploring family farms, racial inequality, sea monsters, and much more, student mapmakers gain new understandings of place.
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An Ode to Madison’s Lake Monster
A story about sea serpents, water spirits, and how Madison’s lake monster lore invites an ethic of coexistence.
Edgy Stuff: April 2016 Recommendations
April 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Chernobyl at Thirty: A Special Edition Environment and Health Roundtable
Drawing from presentations at the recent meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Seattle, a historian, an ecologist, and a political scientist bring their different perspectives to bear on central questions of knowledge stirred by Chernobyl. What have we learned, or not?
The Urban Buzz: Pollinator Protection in Madison, Wisconsin
A variety of bees inhabit urban spaces alongside us. In Madison, efforts are underway to improve habitats for the pollinators.
From Lines to Stories: New Visualizations of Syria’s Borders
The Mapping Borders project rethinks Syria’s borders, adding individual experiences and stories to the “line.”
Global Visions: Rethinking the Globe and How We Teach It
A new website serves as a resource for educators in the global humanities.
On Care in Dark Times
How Emily Dickinson might tell the story of the Anthropocene.
Finding the Words: An Account of E is for Environment, CHE’s 2016 Graduate Student Symposium
A meeting of minds at CHE’s 2016 graduate student symposium broadens the environmental vocabulary.
Coconuts: Catalysts of Conflict
A peek into the past reveals how coconuts went from colonial cash crop to a means of resistance in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century.
